The Policy Creation subsystem provides a centralized environment for the creation and management of easily-updatable conditional rules. This subsystem enables users to validate policies and rules, identify and resolve overlaps & conflicts, and derive additional policies where needed. You access the Policy Creation subsystem from the OpenECOMP Portal.
Policies are used to control, to influence, and to help ensure compliance with goals. A policy can be defined at a high level to create a condition, requirement, constraint, or need that must be provided, maintained, and enforced. A policy can also be defined at a lower or functional level, such as a machine-readable rule or software condition/assertion which enables actions to be taken based on a trigger or request, specific to particular selected conditions in effect at that time. Software policies that are supported include XACML policies, Drool policies, and lower level policies that are embodied in models such as YANG and TOSCA.
Policies can support infrastructure, products and services, operation automation, and security. Various stakeholders such as network and service designers, operations engineers, and security experts might all have access to the Policy Creation subsystem
These policy rules are defined by multiple
stakeholders, (Network / Service Designers,
Operations, Security, customers, etc.).